Mary Magdalene's Joyful Time is Coming
Posted by Joan Norton at 3/2/2009 6:41 AM 
Categories: Goddess and the Sacred Masculine, Seasonal festivals
Tags: Mary Magdalene 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene
Categories: Goddess and the Sacred Masculine, Seasonal festivals
Tags: Mary Magdalene 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene
The Mary Magdalene time of the year is coming. The Easter story is so much Her story. The stirrings of new life in Nature are beginning to show to our eyes and ears and sense of smell. Our instincts are beginning to be aroused from their sleepy state. "She" is our instinctual nature in the great sweep of story known as Nature's year. We talked about that before....She is the St. Brigid Bride arriving so slowly through nature at the beginning of February. Now we're approaching Eastertime Springtime and she's evermore evident in the beginning buds and the little singing birds. Mary , called the Magdalene, is our goddess awakening life inside us. She awakened Life in Jesus and walked through it with him until the end of it and the beginning of the next one.
At this time of year many churches begin to feel the pull of Mary Magdalene's story and they want to honor her role as (in their minds) "apostle to the apostles", a woman who is almost important enough. One year a church in Illinois contacted me and wanted to buy a copy of my book, The Mary Magdalene Within. I was thrilled and sent it on immediatly, only to have it returned immediately. Someone read it and realized that I thought Mary Magdalene was the beloved Bride and Jesus's own "woman who knew the all". Someone realized that I thought Mary Magdalene gave Jesus the personal experience of Eternal Wisdom, which comes through the feminine psyche. Someone realized that I thought Jesus knew he was incomplete without a wife. Someone realized I thought Jesus loved and loved and loved women and had no reason to not love a woman's body. Someone realized I thought that Mary Magdalene's anointing of Jesus was the basis for his earthly legitimacy because who would listen to him otherwise? And someone must have realized that I thought he was lucky to have her. She must have really been something great to make the other apostles so jealous. Her title "the Magdalene" means, among other things, "great" as in "capable of knowing the All". The "watchtower "is a title something like "God", which has the additional meaning of "a bulwark"....something which makes you safe. People are only truly safe when they have their feminine psyche, their feelings and their instincts and their heart.
I feel sorry for churches who feel the natural instinct to tell her story at this time of the year, just the same way they may feel the upsurge of Nature's swelling joy under the ground. They feel it, like the Illinois church felt it and searched the internet for something new about Mary Magdalene. They feel it but they don't know what to do with the feeling because their story can't express the depth and breadth of Jesus' feeling for Mary Magdalene, which is his own deep wisdom of the heart.
Here's a good short version of the way Mary Magdalene's name is misconstrued.
Mary Magdalene's "nicknames"
Here's a song you already know but today it feels like one Jesus could have sung to mary Magdalene.
"Something in the Way She Moves"
click here to order 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine: Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene
Click Here To See Magadalene Rosaries and Chaplets
At this time of year many churches begin to feel the pull of Mary Magdalene's story and they want to honor her role as (in their minds) "apostle to the apostles", a woman who is almost important enough. One year a church in Illinois contacted me and wanted to buy a copy of my book, The Mary Magdalene Within. I was thrilled and sent it on immediatly, only to have it returned immediately. Someone read it and realized that I thought Mary Magdalene was the beloved Bride and Jesus's own "woman who knew the all". Someone realized that I thought Mary Magdalene gave Jesus the personal experience of Eternal Wisdom, which comes through the feminine psyche. Someone realized that I thought Jesus knew he was incomplete without a wife. Someone realized I thought Jesus loved and loved and loved women and had no reason to not love a woman's body. Someone realized I thought that Mary Magdalene's anointing of Jesus was the basis for his earthly legitimacy because who would listen to him otherwise? And someone must have realized that I thought he was lucky to have her. She must have really been something great to make the other apostles so jealous. Her title "the Magdalene" means, among other things, "great" as in "capable of knowing the All". The "watchtower "is a title something like "God", which has the additional meaning of "a bulwark"....something which makes you safe. People are only truly safe when they have their feminine psyche, their feelings and their instincts and their heart. I feel sorry for churches who feel the natural instinct to tell her story at this time of the year, just the same way they may feel the upsurge of Nature's swelling joy under the ground. They feel it, like the Illinois church felt it and searched the internet for something new about Mary Magdalene. They feel it but they don't know what to do with the feeling because their story can't express the depth and breadth of Jesus' feeling for Mary Magdalene, which is his own deep wisdom of the heart. Here's a good short version of the way Mary Magdalene's name is misconstrued.
Mary Magdalene's "nicknames"
Here's a song you already know but today it feels like one Jesus could have sung to mary Magdalene.
"Something in the Way She Moves"
click here to order 14 Steps To Awaken the Sacred Feminine: Women in the Circle of Mary Magdalene
Click Here To See Magadalene Rosaries and Chaplets
hi joan,
Can all of us remember when as children we would run through the grass and stumble across a robin's egg that had fallen out of the nest; and thought it looked like a blue jewel? the first time i saw a robin's nest of eggs was when climbing a tree. Had to pick one out of the nest to go show my mother, who then told me i now could not put it back, because the mother would be afraid of my scent. Seems the same with Mary Magdelene in a way. She was "knocked" out of her rightful position of prominence and status as the closest one to Jesus only to be never "put back" because of the "bad scent" of predjudice and malice associated with her name. However, she has risen in our hearts and thoughts as the Easter morning sun will soon!
thanks for blog space
sheila
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Hi Shiela, Thanks for this lovely story and it's meaningfulness . I wish I could say I'd found a robin's egg but I haven't...they look so beautiful. What you say is so true about the "bad scent" having been associated with Mary Magdalene when we could having been responding to her alluring healing all this time. Oh well, now's the moment, isn't it? And now's the time we all realize how meaningful she is. Thank you for being there with that! xoJoan
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LOVELY post, Joan!!! And I loved Sheila's sharing, too! I just completed Chapter 5 of your book (I'm taking it very slowly) and am soaring. And this post? Easter has always been kind of a drag for me. And I don't know why. Maybe it's my frustration with the transferring from winter to summer, spring is such a mushy, windy, chaotic time. And yet, this year feels different. For the past few years, in fact, Easter/spring hasn't been as tedious.
My grandmother used to sit in awe each spring and muse to me: you looka the trees and everything's dark and bare and one morning you wake up and overnight, the buds are out and the grass is green. It's almost like her wonder and appreciation was passed to me with her death.
And how ironic that after 6 years of having an IUD and no cycles since Mother's Day of 2002, within the past week, the IUD's gone and my body's struggling to find her natural rhythmn. Coincidence that this is happening in springtime?
Thank you Joan, for helping me on my journey.
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Hi Jen, Thanks very much for your comments .I think they will feel very familiar to alot of women. Especially about missing your cycles....it's amazing how important it is to feel the rhythms of Her through our body. When I went through menopause I felt lost for awhile until I realized I was now responding to the cycles of seasonal earth and the heavenly bodies more directly. And thanks for sharing your grandmother's wisdom with us....she really knew how to perceive the joy in Nature, didn't she? What was her name?
Thanks for being there, Joan
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